US Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said on Thursday he had agreed to debate his Republican rival Tim Walz on Sept 18 on CNN and Oct 1 on CBS."The American people deserve as many debates as possible ... I look forward to seeing you at both," he said in a post on the X social media network.

Pro-Palestinian protestors in New York on Thursday interrupted an event in support of Democratic US presidential candidate Kamala Harris by throwing smoke bombs at the scene, resulting in the arrest of dozens, according to a Y-Net report.In footage circulating on X, formally Twitter, havoc can be seen at the scene of the event, with people wearing keffiyehs and holding Palestinian flags as the NYPD makes arrests. Pro/Palestine protesters just invaded a private meeting between Kamala Harris and her campaign officials in NYC. The protesters set off smoke bombs and berated everyone. pic.twitter.com/vnS7F8pBck— DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 (@1Nicdar) August 15, 2024

Following military assessments, residents of the kibbutzim Kfar Giladi, HaGoshrim, Ma'ayan Baruch, Dafna, Dan, Snir, Kfar Szold, Amir, Sde Nehemia, Kfar Blum, Shamir, Neot Mordechai, Lahavot HaBashan, and Gonen have been requested to avoid gatherings, minimize movement within the communities, and stay close to protected areas, The Upper Galilee Regional Council announced, Ynet reported.

Sweden confirmed its first case of the viral infection mpox on Thursday, which was also the first case outside Africa, a day after the WHO declared the disease a global public health emergency for the second time in two years.The person was infected while staying in a part of Africa where there was a large outbreak of the disease, Olivia Wigzell, director-general at the Swedish Public Health Agency told a press conference.The World Health Organization made its announcement over mpox, which spreads through close contact, after an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo spread to nearby countriesof a more serious type of the disease."We have now also during the afternoon had confirmation that we have one case in Sweden of the more grave type of mpox, the one called Clade I," Health and Social Affairs Minister Jakob Forssmed told the press conference.Wigzell said the person who was infected had received care and instructions in line with the health agency's recommendations.